In 1924, developer J.B. Salmon launched the Hollywood Company to subdivide and build out a new neighborhood on an old dairy farm just southeast of the relatively new White Rock Lake. A year later, Bert Blair & Co established Santa Monica just north of Salmon’s Hollywood Heights.
After Jerry Brown became governor of California for the first time nearly a half-century ago, he declared that the state had entered “an era of limits.” Citing “sluggish economic growth, increasing social instability,
Los Angeles County officials warn against swimming at certain beaches due to high bacterial levels, potentially causing illness. Malibu and Santa Monica Pier areas are affected.
Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. Encampments at a growing number of universities across the state and nation are sparking battles between students’ free speech and campus policies against trespassing and obstructing ...
She called a meeting in 2013 after a mountain lion was killed trying to cross the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills and asked, what can we do? This was the answer.
Book: Pier historian James (Jim) Harris has a new book all about Santa Monica’s iconic and beloved Pier. Scott Snowden Executive Director at the Santa Monica Pier Corporation, Jim Harris — arguably the most informed, most appropriate and most ...